McDonald’s employee reveals the chain’s ‘least-ordered’ menu item: ‘No one knew how to make it’

A fast-food worker is going viral after revealing the alleged least-ordered item at McDonald's. The revelation comes courtesy of Stephen Patula, the McDonald's employee behind the popular TikTok page @patulafamilymcdonalds. In his most recent video, the TikToker shared the “least-ordered” item at his family's chain of McDonald's franchises.

Condoleezza Rice spars with The View host while discussing Capitol riot

Condoleezza Rice won't be interrupted. The former secretary of state appeared Wednesday on The View as a guest host, but it didn't take long for her conversation about the Capitol riot to get heated. "We will find out," Rice said regarding the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol building, where Capitol Police fatally shot 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt as she and hundreds of rioters trespassed.

Paris Hilton Recounts Being ‘Strangled,’ ‘Slapped,’ and ‘Watched in the Shower’ While Calling for Troubled Teen Industry Reform

The entrepreneur and reality star was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to advocate for accountability alongside survivors, advocates, and group of Democratic lawmakers including Senator Jeff Merkely (D-Ore.) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Merkely and Khanna are co-sponsoring the new Accountability for Congregate Care Act, which will soon be introduced in both houses of Congress. “I'm confident that this bill will create a world where all youth have the support and opportunity to heal, thrive, and not just survive,” Hilton said Wednesday of the ACCA.

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  Paris Hilton meets with members of Congress to urge reform in the ‘troubled-teen industry’

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  Paris Hilton calls on Biden and Congress to take action against the 'troubled teen industry'

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Jen Psaki's Response To Peter Doocy's Question Leaves Him Momentarily Speechless

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy seems to pride himself on asking hard-hitting questions of White House press secretary Jen Psaki. However, on Tuesday, Psaki was the one who asked a question that left Doocy momentarily speechless. It happened when Doocy asked about the possibility of “tons” of police officers and members of the military quitting to avoid COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

A 10-year-old Black girl was arrested at school in Hawaii after drawing a picture of her bully, ACLU says

The girl was taken into custody without her mom, according to an ACLU letter the outlet obtained. The ACLU is calling on local officials to change their policies and compensate the girl's family. A Black 10-year-old girl was arrested at school in Oahu, Hawaii, last year after making a sketch of another student that reportedly made a parent "very upset."

Woman jailed for throwing killer litter from 50th floor in CBD after tiff with boyfriend

After an argument with her boyfriend, a woman threw a speaker, a soundbar and a television set from her 50th-floor unit along Shenton Way. Lluen Saenz Maria Isabel, a 49-year-old Peruvian, was jailed for seven weeks on Tuesday (19 October), after she pleaded guilty to one count of committing a rash act which endangered the safety of others. Saenz, a teacher at the Canadian International School, was about to end their relationship last year when the man assaulted her.

‘No other like it in Texas.’ Massive ranch goes on sale for eye-popping $200M price tag

Nearly 80,000 acres of West Texas ranchland with historic roots have hit the market at a whopping $200 million price tag. Five months ago, the Dallas-based real estate broker Icon Global Group announced that the owners of the Turkey Track Ranch, near Borger in the Texas Panhandle, were planning to sell the property after 120 years of family stewardship. Capital Farm Credit appraised the site and will finance the upcoming sale process, according to a Wednesday announcement.

Condoleezza Rice says white kids shouldn’t be made to feel bad over CRT on ‘The View’

Condoleezza Rice brought her own distinct view to the ABC daytime chatfest as the panel discussed critical race theory and its impact on children. The former U.S. Secretary of State appeared on Wednesday's episode of The View with hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, and Sara Haines. One of the subjects they delved into was critical race theory which examines how racial bias is fundamentally embedded in the fabric of America that has shaped policy and society, generally taught to those in college.

Russia scrambles fighter jets to escort U.S. strategic bombers over Black Sea

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia scrambled two Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to escort a pair of U.S. B-1B strategic bombers over the Black Sea, Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday, an incident that coincided with a visit to the region by the U.S. secretary of defense. The supersonic U.S. Cold war-era planes were originally designed to carry nuclear bombs and missiles but now carry conventional payloads. "Russian fighter crews identified the aerial targets as two U.S. Air Force supersonic strategic B-1B bombers, accompanied by two KC-135 refuelling planes, and escorted them over the waters of the Black Sea," the defence ministry said in a statement accompanied by video footage of the U.S. aircraft in flight.

One of the world's deadliest snakes found in shipping container sent from India

South Essex Wildlife Hospital received a call from a local British stonemasonry firm about a long, spotted snake they found in a shipping container from India. Turns out, the snake is a saw-scaled viper, one of the deadliest snakes in the world, according to South Essex Wildlife Hospital on Twitter. South Essex Wildlife Hospital is a wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation charity​ in the U.K. While most snakes are harmless to humans, the saw-scaled viper is a dramatic exception.

Trump Gets Taken To School After Botching Basic U.S. History In Latest Rant

New York City announced it was moving a statue of the Founding Father and nation's third president out of its City Council Chamber due to his history as a slaveholder. It's not yet clear where the statue will go, but Trump predictably threw a fit over Jefferson ... even if he's a little hazy on what, exactly, Jefferson did. Trump called him “a principal writer of the Constitution of the United States.”

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Bride nearly burns down her own wedding reception after jaw-dropping accident: 'I would’ve left'

What was always going to be a memorable wedding nearly took a turn for the worse when a bouquet caught on fire. TikTok user @emilyljackson shared footage of her special day with her audience. A quick-thinking photographer named Molly Stevens (@forthewestandwildphoto) fearlessly grabbed the blazing bouquet and threw it on the ground.

Lovelorn Arts Prof Imprisoned for Butchering Colleague With Fire Poker

A professor at a New England liberal arts college for women, who used a fire poker, rock, and pruning shears to torture a colleague for hours, was sentenced on Wednesday to at least a decade in prison. Rie Hachiyanagi, 50, an art professor at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley, pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Friday to nine charges in connection with the attack on fellow professor Lauret Savoy at Savoy's home, according to Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan. After the change of plea hearing last week, Judge Francis Flannery recessed the court until Wednesday morning, where he sentenced Hachiyanagi to 10 to 12 years in state prison.

Women across the UK say they're being injected with needles in nightclubs and waking up with no recollection of what happened next

Police in Nottinghamshire, West Yorkshire, and Scotland have all received reports of spiking with injections and are investigating the incidents, the BBC reported. One 20-year-old man in Nottingham has been arrested and released on bail in connection to a report of a needle-spiking incident on October 16, Superintendent Kathryn Craner of Nottinghamshire Police told Insider. Zara Owen, a first-year student at Nottingham University, told The Independent that she blacked out during a night out and woke up with a "pinprick" on her leg, which caused her "sharp and agonizing pain."

Woman reaches plea deal after daughter found dead amid filth

A 50-year-old Louisiana woman has accepted a 50-year sentence as part of a plea agreement in the death of her 25-year-old disabled daughter, who died dehydrated and in filth. Karen Johnson Harrison of the Plainview area pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder of Cyra Shantelle Marie Harrison, who had cerebral palsy, The Town Talk reported. The coroner's report described Cyra Harrison's death as homicide.

The Most Common Places COVID Is Spreading Right Now (And Where It's Not)

The types of places that carry the biggest risk for COVID-19 transmission have changed over time ― partly because experts have learned more about how the virus works and partly because the virus itself has changed. The delta variant is more than two times as contagious as previous strains, which has obvious implications for transmission. Throughout the pandemic, it's been pretty clear that restaurants and bars are sources of COVID-19 transmission, and recent evidence suggests that continues to be the case.

Washington newscast accidentally broadcasts pornographic clip during weather report

A news station in Washington state has exposed itself to possible fines after broadcasting a short clip of pornography during its evening news broadcast. The pornographic content was broadcast during the 6 p.m. Sunday newscast on CBS affiliate KREM 2. As the hosts offered a weather update, a short clip of a woman's rear appeared on a visual display behind meteorologist Michelle Boss.

Democrats raise proposed IRS bank reporting threshold to $10,000 from $600

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senior Democrats in Congress have agreed to raise their proposed tax reporting threshold for bank account inflows and outflows to $10,000 a year, with exemptions for wage income, from an earlier proposal of $600 that drew criticism for being too intrusive. U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden on Tuesday said the new $10,000 Internal Revenue Service reporting threshold, to be included in Democrats' sweeping "reconciliation" social spending and tax hike legislation, was chosen after consultations with the U.S. Treasury because it is a level frequently used in other bank reporting requirements.

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Chevy Has a New 10-Liter Crate Motor That Makes 1004 HP

When Mopar announced a 1000-hp crate engine called the Hellephant, it was hard to hide our disappointment. Sure, a four-digit horsepower number out of the box sounds great, but it was hard not to think the company had called just a bit short of the Goldilocks figure. The good news is that Chevrolet agrees, which is why the company is announcing a new, one-thousand-and-four horsepower engine.

A son is charged with the murder of his mother at a South Miami-Dade bus stop

When Loretta Bruno got dropped off at the bus stop near her Florida City home in Tuesday morning darkness, the friend driving Bruno saw one of her children come out of the bushes behind the bus stop. Bruno, 48, died at the bus stop. Eloissaint, 20, was arrested Tuesday morning and has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder for also allegedly shooting at the friend who drove Bruno.

Video shows a truck 'rolling coal,' or purposefully blowing a cloud of thick black exhaust fumes, into a busy Texas restaurant

A driver of a truck was caught on camera "rolling coal" into a Texas restaurant. "Rolling coal" is a term used when diesel truck drivers modify the emissions controls on their vehicles to intentionally blow smoke. The practice is illegal in some states, although not in Texas.

Taliban praise suicide bombers, offer families cash and land

The Taliban praised suicide bombers who died during the war against the former government and its Western allies and offered their families sums of cash and promises of land, the movement's interior ministry said in a statement. Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting interior ministry who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head as a "specially designated global terrorist", met the families at a ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which was itself targeted by suicide bombers in 2018. Official photographs of the meeting on Tuesday obscured his face.

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  Top Taliban minister praises ‘sacrifices’ of suicide bombers, offers $125 and plot of land for their family

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